Quotes About Integrity

I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

In medicine, sins of commission are mortal, sins of omission venial.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see everyday, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

Lying eats into the soul. If it becomes a habit it frays the edge of your spirit. Truth telling, although sometimes harder to do, strengthens your heart. It serves a person ill not to tell the truth.

I may be a slut, but I'm a slut who is growing a conscience.

I'd rather be a fool than a vulture feeding off other people.

Our own life has to be our message.

A man who evades his own conscience is a dupe.

A man who lacks reason cheats himself repeatedly.

The truth exists at the junction between good and bad.

For where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

Though I am not pleased with the responses regarding another factor in leadership development, integrity demands that I report it. Only three out of ten of those we interviewed indicated that college or seminary training positively impacted their leadership development. And four out of ten told us the influence was slight or not a factor at all.

Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.

where the money of the church goes, so goes its heart.

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

He who shunneth not small faults falleth little by little into greater.

Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.